Monday, 15 May 2017

College Sayings and Quotes

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A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.    

Dan Rather



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When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.    

William J. Clinton



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It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

Bobby Scott



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By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.    

Mark Pocan



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You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.    

Jeannette Walls



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College is fun as long as you don't die.

Tsugumi Ohba



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College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Robert Frost



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For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.

Bill Cosby



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I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

Natalie Portman



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College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

Judd Apatow



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Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

John Green



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No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.

Horatio Alger



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I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.    

Jeffrey Eugenides



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I went to college because I didn't have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn't know was possible.

Tom Hanks



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College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.

Tom Ford



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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller



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College has given me the confidence I need to fail.    

Jarod Kintz



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If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.

R. Albert Mohler Jr.



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The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.    

Ralph Waldo Emerson



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College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?

David Wood



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A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton



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College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

George Gobel



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College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink

Chuck Palahniuk



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One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

Dennis Prager



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Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for he better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.    

William James



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What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.    

Ralph Waldo Emerson



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One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



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Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

George Lorimer



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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

R.S. Ingersoll



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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.    

William James


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So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.    

Gordon Gee



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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

Ossie Davis



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A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.

Thomas Ehrlich



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I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.

Anne Lamott



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The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.    

Robert M. Hutchins



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College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.    

J. Cole



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The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.    

C. Wright Mills



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A college boy cannot successfully go through life by graduating in football, baseball, or highballs, for the responsibilities of life are not ball-bearing.    

William H. Murray



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A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.    

Reverend Edward A. Malloy



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By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good paying job.    

Mark Pocan



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Colleges are like old age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

Bob Dylan



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The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.    

George Horace Lorime



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I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.

Phil Mickelson



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College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.    

Larisa Oleynik



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That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.

Jeph Jacques



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Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

L. L. Henderson



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The chief value in going to college is that it's the only way to learn it really doesn't matter.

George Edwin Howes



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Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

Elbert Hubbard



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Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.    

Alice Duer Miller



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It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.    

Thomas Edward Brown

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